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A Moment of Clarity Regarding the Raison D’Etre for the App Store
- dhosek 6y agoI couldn't agree with Gruber more.
- mesozoic 6y agoIt seems apparent to me that making google apps on iOS any better than necessary to maintain google dominance is not in line with Android competing with iOS. The author seems to not accept that Google doesn't particularly like iOS and would love to have a full monopoly on mobile OS systems. Apple probably even loses more by kicking Gmail app off the ios store than Google does.
- dhosek 6y agoI have all my mail accounts hosted in gmail right now. I have no intention of installing the gmail app. It's bad enough that I've given google all my email, I don't want to sacrifice any more of my privacy to them if I can avoid it.
- m463 6y agoLead, follow or get out of the way?
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoWe’re basically giving all the money to the developers and the 30 percent that pays for running the store, that’ll be great.” Really. It’s impossible to square that mindset with the App Store of today, where the highest priority1 seemingly is the generation of ever-increasing revenue in the Services column of Apple’s quarterly finance spreadsheet. In this case the issues with the 30% fee are orthogonal to the quality problems as the gmail app is free. Ultimately I think the problem is that Google isn't very good at client side software, it isn't in their DNA.
- makecheck 6y agoFor me, the bigger problem is the stuck-up, arbitrary nature of App Review; I barely think about the 30%. Rather, it is the idea that any minor update can be sidelined for a day or more because some reviewer has a problem with Something That Just Does Not Matter. I literally pulled out of the Mac App Store for this reason because there was a choice (to distribute in some other way). I would pull out of the iOS store if I could.